Challenges and Curiosity: Adventures in Editing SFF

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On August 15, 2022

In case you missed it, Uncanny Magazine is hosting its Year 9 Kickstarter: To Fifty … and Beyond! Friends and editors Chimedum Ohaegbu and Monte Lin dropped by for a guest post. Together, they discuss what’s it’s like to edit one of the leading magazines in the SFF community. And, of course, our favourite question: […]

Transmitting the Strange: A Conversation with Lydia Kwa

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On January 22, 2020

Interview by Yilin Wang I first heard Lydia read at the panel “Linking Past and Present: Writing about Language and Place” at Growing Room 2017. Since then, we have shared interesting conversations over tea or online, discussing a range of topics such as writing, martial arts, and folklore. After reading her novels Oracle Bone and […]

Wuxia Fiction and Urban Spaces: An Interview with Yilin Wang

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On August 28, 2019

Interview by Tamara Jong Writer Yilin Wang shares the inspiration for her fantasy story “Sparrow” published in Issue 145 of Clarkesworld. Her story was also recently named a runner-up in Sequestrum Magazine’s 2019 Editor Reprint Award and will be reprinted in one of their upcoming issues. Read on to find out what her revision process […]

Labour and Love: Adventures in Editing SFF

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On August 7, 2019

This week, our friends from Uncanny Magazine popped in for a guest post. Editors Chimedum Ohaegbu and Michi Trota discuss what’s it’s like to edit one of the most recognizable magazines in the SFF community. And, of course, our favourite question: what’s exciting in speculative fiction right now. What first drew you to speculative fiction? […]

Beautiful and Challenging Work: A Conversation on Speculative Poetry, Part 3

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On May 22, 2019

By Terese Mason Pierre This is the final part of Augur’s blog series on speculative poetry. I wanted to talk to the poetry editors of speculative lit magazines about their thoughts on this kind of work. First, we discussed what made a poem speculative. Then, we spoke about the kinds of speculative poetry we liked […]

Witchcraft and Matrix Glitches: A Conversation on Speculative Poetry, Part 2

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On May 15, 2019

By Terese Mason Pierre In Part 1 of this series, the poetry editors of Strange Horizons (Romie Stott), FIYAH (Brandon O’Brien) and I talked about what we thought made poems speculative. The conversation shed light on our personal and professional experiences with this amazing kind of literature. Here, we’ll move into what we value about […]

Providing a Gateway: A Conversation on Speculative Poetry, Part 1

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On May 10, 2019

By Terese Mason Pierre What is speculative poetry, anyway? As Augur’s poetry editor, this question comes up a lot. I reached out to my fellow speculative poetry editors—Romie Stott of Strange Horizons and Brandon O’Brien of FIYAH—for their experiences and opinions on the form of literature we edit and love. I wanted to interview them […]

Memory and Truth: An Interview with Rati Mehrotra

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On January 11, 2019

SFF writer and bookworm extraordinaire, Rati Mehrotra, chatted with Augur about the joys of world-building and writing within the speculative with the “rules” of the realistic. Her debut novel, Markswoman (the first in a series), was published in 2018. In the same year, her short story “Hacker’s Faire” was shortlisted for the 2018 Sunburst Award for […]

Speculative Fiction On the Edge of History: An Interview with Terri Favro

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On December 12, 2018

Nuclear war, time travel and rewriting reality—Augur interviewed Terri Favro, whose debut novel, Sputnik’s Children, is as fascinating as it is engrossing. Sputnik’s Children is set in the Niagara region, wedged between the present, Cold War era, and an eerily familiar alternate version of history. Debbie, a famous comic book artist, is tasked with writing her character’s […]

An Interview with Jen Neale

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On December 7, 2018

We’re continuing our week of celebrating great authors with an interview with one of our own, Jen Neale. Her short story, “You Can Go Anywhere” featuring a crumbling, post-quake Vancouver, appeared in Issue 1.1 of Augur Magazine. Jen’s short fiction has previously appeared in a variety of magazines across Canada and abroad, including Maisonneuve, and she […]